A Nuremburg engraved goblet, first quarter 18th century
In the manner of Johann Wolfgang Schmidt, the round funnel bowl wheel-engraved with a hunting scene, the unfortunate stag and doe together with a fox and a hare being pursued by three hounds and two hunters, one on horseback, within a continuous landscape containing a variety of different trees, stylised birds in the sky above, a formal stiff-leaf border below, the elaborate tall hollow multi-knopped stem with a central inverted baluster flanked by cushion knops set between pairs of collars, over a broad conical foot with a formal leafy garland, 29.8cm high
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Provenance
Chris Crabtree Collection

A glass of very similar form attributed to Johann Wolfgang Schmidt is illustrated by Rainer Rückert, Die Glassammlung des Bayersischen Nationalmuseums München, Vol.2 (1982), no.488 where the author states that the form deviates from that typical of Nuremburg and suggests a possible Upper Franconian or Spessart origin. A goblet decorated with a similar hunting scene, also by Schmidt, is illustrated at no.489.